Concert

Skambankt rocked my socks^^,
The concert was awesome!!! My thighs are sore from all the jumping I did.
The sound mixing was awful thou. It was impossible to hear the vocalist.
And the warm up band sucked.
A man gave me his spot right behind the mixing desk. I think he thought I was cute. He had his arm next to me like he was considering groping meXP My Boyfriend was standing right next to, so I guess he didn't dare^^,
I also completed my cd collection, I now own all the Skambankt cds. I didn't bother to get it signed thou. I went backstage to get a signed cd, but then the drummer came out, and he was... wrong. He looked all wrong, like not the way I imagined. I honestly think that knowing too much about the people behind the music ruins music. So I just took the cd home.
I am kind of hang over thou^^, I got drunk enough to crave beer. That means I am drunk.

Halloweeeeeeeeeeeeeen^^,

So it's Halloween this weekend. And I have two parties lined up^^, And I am baking cookies tomorrow with the Gachas. And today I am going to the Skambankt concert, and I am going backstage^^, Good times^^,

Because them Asian sure can dance

The western world lost it's dance troupe approach to bands sometime around the same time as we lost our fascinations for constructed boy/girl-bands.
Asia still loves that thou. And so do we.

This is the "dance shot post"

Double-U - Miss Love Tantei

Anyone but me who thinks the intro sounds like "not gonna get us" by T.a.T.u?
But seriously, they could have saved themselves the rap-sequence.

Miss A - Breathe

Okey, I love this song. So sue meXP

Berryz Koubou - Special generation

Anyone but me who hear "super shallow generation?XP

100220 SHINee & 2PM dance battle

I am not hating on the dance abilities of the Japanese supergroups of Hello Project, but these Korean bands kick Hello Projects ass in most cases. Thou in Korea there seems to be a different focus on the dance abilities of their idols than in Japan. Also their styles are completely different. Hello Project are singers who dance, while the Koreans are dancers who sing, if you get my meaning?
And thou I still like Japanese pop, I must admit that these days, I do prefer the Korean bands.


See what I mean? They aren't bad dancers at all.
Mostly posted for nostalgic reasons^^, Thou I still like it thou^^,
And to any and all men who find them hot: they are 13. Did you gross yourself out now? I hope to all that's holy that you didXP


It's a shame that Koreans don't release as many Dance Shot versions as the Japanese so. On the other hand, most of their videos are all dance anyway.
Here is one of the awesome songs, with it's two videos mashed^^,
How cool is that, right?XD

If I am ever gonna be a teacher

If I am ever gonna be a teahcer, I am gonna be a professor at a university, and get applauded after every lecture^^,

Where are all the Japanese channels?

Korean bands seem to all have their own youtube channels. Which is how I discovered things like 2AM and 2PM, they are signed to JYPentertainment, and when I added Miss A all their bands were suggested to me so I added them all for funsies.
But when I went to look for the youtube channels of Nakashima Mika, Ringo Shiina og Tsuchiya Anna they were nowhere to be fun.
So I thought Hello Project would surely have a channel so that I can follow Bouno! and Berryz Kobo, but they don't have one.
None of the Japanese groups or artists I like do.=(

Why on earth?

Why on earth does celebrity kids get to anything they want like this?
Whe could at least make something good, like Jaden did with Karate Kid. Which I haven't seen, but I have heard a lot of good things about the movie.
But this is awful. At least it isn't all that indecent.

Scott Pilgrim VS the World

Clickable title, peeps^^,

Edit: This post is actually from the 4th of October, but apparently it never got published. Sorry 'bout that.

So I saw Scott Pilgrim VS the World on Sunday.
When I first saw the trailer, I knew I just had to see this movie, but as time went on, I started to think that I had missed it. I hadn't thou.

It can be described by one word, and one word only: AWESOME!!!
I was dead tired and half knocked out by a cold when I saw it, so most of the references went way over my head. It was inhabited by all these vaguely familiar actors, that I know I have seen somewhere before, but I generally didn't recognize any of the movies they have played in when I checked it on IMDB. I guess they all just had "one of those faces, you know."

But this movie was everything that Kick-Ass was, and more.
It had vividly coloured foes, a dark and mysterious, "woe is me" kind of love intrest, lots of craze Ex-es. Even a cute little stalker girl.
All the Evil Ex-es explode into coins when defeated, and at one point there are some animated dragons which just drip with awesome.
The battles are fantastic. All over with bright colours, flashing sound effects (you know, like in the Batman tv-show), and fantastic coreography. Even the Boyfriend, who usually rags on any and every combat scene in every movie we have ever seen, said it was awsome.

Purely visually the movie was beautiful. All the scenes are excelently lighted and cut to fit the mood, and all the sets are very pretty. The special effects and generally sparkly and over the top, just the way we like it, ne?
The soundtrack is a must-have. As in: I am gonna go buy that soundtrack when I leave the studyhall for the night. Michael Cera mives generally have a pretty nice soundtrack. I actually spent money on the Juno soundtrack, just like I am actually gonna spend money on this one. That says something in today's society of free downloading, don't you think?
All the characters had the exactly right balance of goofy, cute, and just barking mad. Knives Chau, played by Ellen Wong, showes exactly this. Going from the cutesy little catholic school-girl, blinded by the awesomeness of her boyfriend, Scott Pilgrim, gradually changing to a crazy fangirl (think cat-girl, only with a Sex Bob-omb t-shirt and sans the ears, the kind that needs spayingXP), and eventually a crazy-ass ex-girlfriend stalker as Scott takes his relationship with Ramona, played by Mary Elisabeth Winstead.

Gotta cut it short here, they are gonna lock the doors in 10 minutes. See ya'll later^^,

I can understand it!!!

So I was listening to Me gustas tú by Manu Chau, and I suddenly realized how much I understood.
So I was gonna find the song on youtube so that I could embed it to you, and then I found this video right here:



Now you can learn too^^,
"Me gusta" roughly means "I like", "gusta" being the first person singular in present tense or the verb "gustar" which roughly means "to like" but not quite. It's like that in many languages, which is why my Spanish teacher abhors the use of dictionaries for early learners. It's just gonna confuse you.
Take "vear" in Norwegian (written vær for those of you with Scandinavian letters on your computer. Sorry about the æ, it's 4 in the morning at it was the only word I could think of). It can mean either "to be" in the imperative tense, "weather", the star sign Aries, or a ram (as in the furry, sheep looking animal with horns. Might actually be a male sheep, I don't know. All I know is that it's big and furry and it looks like a sheep.)
The point being that "gustar" does not necessarily act like "to like", like he sings "me gustas tú", and here it is being inflicted in the second person singular.
My Spanish teacher explains this by saying that "gustar" is more similar to "please" than "like", so you aren't really saying "I like this", what you are saying is more in the like of "this pleases me", with "gustar" pointing at the thing you like, rather than you as the liker.

Anyway, now that you know that "me gusta" means more or less "I like" you can just look at the pictures and learn the Spanish words that go with the pictures^^,

Double-U Tee Eff?!?! BIG BANG

Beautiful hangover by Korean boyband B.I.G. B.A.N.G


"Keep me warm and beautiful/hangover/hangover yeah"
WTF?!

This is one of the reasons I would have liked to speak Korean. What the eff are they singing about?!?!
But that's what google is for, neh?
Apparently it's a love song about a girl who's like a "beautiful hangover" O.o
Do they know what hangover means?!?! O.o I would be so insulted!
The lyrics are absolutely beautiful thou, like poetry. Go google them.

The beat is delicious thou. Makes me want to dance^^,

2NE1

OhEmGee!!!OhEmGee!!!OhEmGee!!! *Fan-girl squeel*
2NE1, the main reason I started liking Korean music in the first place, has released a new album *-* (supposed to look like I've got stars in my eyes)
The album is brand new, released 8th (Japan) and 9th (Korea) of September.
It feels amazing to finally be able to report news as they happening^^,
Fire is still my favorite thou^^,

They are the band behind such songs Lollipop together with Big Bang, and Fire. Fire is one of my all time favorite Korean songs^^,

Lollipop


Fire came in two versions:
Space:


Street:


This far they have released 3 singles from their new album "To Anyone"

Clap your hands, released September 9th


Go away, released September 10th


Can't Nobody, released September 12th

I need to learn Korean

I wanna know what they are talking about!!!=D=D
Usually In couldn't care less about the people behind the music, I like the actual music, but I am sorta starting to understand V's obsession about know everything. I am not gonna go that far, but being able to understand what they are talking about in their videos would have been funXD

Boybands= awful, but oh, so fun

I was not one of the girls that screamed over Backstreet Boys, I got the creeps from N'Sync, and I thought A1 were stupid, Westlife was for brainless blondes who wore lipgloss in 5th grade.
Oh em gee! I can't believe that I actually remember the names of these bands! O.o

I was more a Spice Girls kind of girl. I had a huge crush on Baby Spice. When I grew out of that face it was No Doubt that was the thing. Then it Kaizer's Orchestra. You know the rest.

But you know how everything is more fun when it's from Asia right?
Well, it's true for boybands too.
I give you 2PM. A Korean boyband that has been at it since '08. It's just as awful as the things that the west grew out of around '00, but how can seeing cute Asian boys dancing in sync not be fun, right?^^,





But wait!
It doesn't stop there. Becuase for the girls who only liked the heartfelt, tear-dripping ballads there is 2AM, which an all ballad band. That's right, they only sing ballads!!! O.o Only in Asia!
They were also started in '08, and they are so cheesy that I don't think it's even almost fun. But that is meXD Happy ballad listening^^,

Miss A

For once I actually discover something new from Asia just as it is starting up, not waaaaay after they are broken up.

So my newest Asian favorite is the South Korean girl band called Miss A.
They have thus far released 3 singles: Dashi Sarang/Love again, Bad but Good, and Breathe. So as you probably can tell they started up this year. As far as I can tell their debut album is going to be called "Step Up". It may or may not have already been released. If you judge by all the youtube videos with a still picture and music, I would say it's alreasy been released, but the youtube album is slightly ambiguous on this matter. And they are superfun^^, All colourful and peppy.
So I need to get hold of their album. I really do. Or rather I need to get ahold of it when it's actaully released=D=D Or something XP
It feels so good to discover something in their startup fase. Maybe I'll even get to see them in concert sometime=D=D That would be Awesome with a capital A^^,

First single: Dashi Sarang/Love again


Secong single: Bad but Good


Third single: Breathe

Hill climbed, now for the mountain.

One of the most important things to learn, and one of the hardest, when learning a language is to learn to separate words in fluent speech. Without this it's just no good trying to speak at all.
I just realized I have reached that point in Spanish. Huge hill climbed. The mountain to climb now is becoming fluent.
One huge hill over with anyway.

Oh, and by the way, the last post I posted was number 300. Yay me=D=D

I hate fall

Almost as much as I hate winter.
Only difference is that it's not snowingXP And that it looks warmer than it is, so I always wear too little clothes, and end up freezing my butt offXP
Boyfriend bought me cocoa with marsmallows. It was nice.^^,
I have another paper due on Friday. English grammar. Also I figured the Acer won't ever get fixed right, I will probably be able to demand my money back in about six months. So I bought a HP Touchsmart.
I love tablet pcs and my old one is really busted. So I bought a new one to do my school work on. It's a real beauty^^,
I tried to snap a picture for you, but it's too dark so it turned out bad. Maybe tomorrow.
Pokémon Black and White will be out in the States in the spring. I am so importing it.^^,

Infliction headache

I have inflections up to here *holds hand up to forehead*
Now, my favourite part of learning new languages is to learn grammar. Vocabulary is just words, it's the grammar that make you able to talk.
Now, irregular verbs I am not that crazy about, mostly because they don't have a pattern, you have to learn them one by one.
Japanese only has two of these so that is pretty easy, but Japanese has a lot of inflections in general, for time and purpose amongst other.
Spanish on the other hand has a lot of both. They inflict their verbs in time, sex, and number. Kind of like German. One of the advantages with the fact that Spanish and Japanese are so inflection rich is that you don't have to learn sentence patterns rules as much. They have them, but not many.

Take the Spanish verb ser, which means to be:
Soy - eres - es - somos - sois - son
And that is just present tense, you have all these patterns for all the tenses.
My head hurts

Skambankt

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My relationship to music can be described in terms of human relationships.
Linkin Park was a fling.
Miyavi was a crush.
Marilyn Manson was a flirt.
Evanescence was a "thing" that I outgrew.

And then there are the four great ones:
Kaizers Orchestra, Gåte, Lumsk, and Bertine Zetlitz. We are lifers. We are married and are never gonna split.
Kaizers was the obsession that just never cooled down.
Gåte was the exiting new fling that grew into something deeper and more significant.
Lumsk was the love I thought I had lost, but that I rediscovered.
And Bertine Zetlitz was the friendship that grew into something deep and wonderful.

And now. Now there is Skambankt.
I saw the covers, and I knew. I just knew it. It was love at first sight. Hadn't even heard a single note, but by jove, I knew that this was to be my new love. And I am rarely wrong when it comes to this sort of thing.
This is the exact reason I can buy books 'cos I like the cover. The cover says a lot, the cover very nearly says it all.
So I asked to listen to the album "Søvnløs" (Sleepless), and after the hearing the beginning of just one song, I was sold.

Ted Winters has a voice that will make it snow in the desert, and make glaziers run in wide rivers of melted water.
This is music that will make your spine tingle and your heart vibrate.
This! is the sort of music that will make your panties wet. It pours over your skin like hot oil, and melts into your head, making your synapses spark like you were dead drunk and saw a hot piece of tail walk by. It's heady and wonderful. It's the sort of music I pay money for.

First thing I thought was that it was like Kaizers only harder. And I still think that. It's the "harder, better, faster, stronger" version of Kaizers. Not really, but it was my first thought.
And with a little more research I discovered that the reason for this is that the vocalist of Skambankt, Ted Winters, the guitarist of Kaizers.
Skambankt was sort of hastily thrown together when another band didn't show up for a gig. Skambankt wrote 9 songs and went on stage. This was in '94.

I just now discovered that they are playing in Oslo later this month, and I am gonna be there!

Very few bands make this happen for me. But Skambankt did. Skambankt will join the halls of the bands I will always love, never forget and always return to. I love Skambankt!